Chronology of Coverage

Jan. 10, 2014

Chinese film director Zhang Yimou and his wife are ordered by government office to pay $1.24 million fine for violating family planning limits by having three children. MORE

Dec. 2, 2013

Zhang Yimou, the prominent Chinese film director, acknowledged that he had two sons and a daughter with his current wife but denied rumors that he had seven children with four different women. MORE

May. 10, 2013

Zhang Yimou, China's most celebrated filmmaker, is being investigated for potential violation of family planning laws restricting families to one child; Zhang is suspected of having fathered up to seven children with four women, and may be fined nearly $27 million if found guilty. MORE

Jan. 7, 2012

Saturday Profile of Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, whose latest film is The Flowers of War; Zhang's more recent work shows his desire to stay in the Chinese authorities' good graces while still preserving the international plaudits his earlier work, which was heavily censored, received. MORE

Dec. 25, 2011

Zhang Yimou film The Flowers of War is a drama set during the Nanjing Massacre, subject familiar to all Chinese citizens; movie, which is most expensive Chinese film ever made, is Zhang's attempt to tell story from a different perspective and make Chinese cinema more globalized. MORE

Editorial Desk

By STEVEN SPIELBERG and KATHLEEN KENNEDY; Steven Spielberg is a director-producer. Kathleen Kennedy is president of Amblin Entertainment, a film production company.

Barring an 11th hour reversal, Zhang Yimou, director of "Ju Dou," the first Chinese movie ever nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, will not be allowed to celebrate his honor publicly or attend tonight's award ceremony.

“The Great Wall,” a $150 million film directed by Zhang Yimou, is the largest-ever Hollywood-China co-production, which will exempt it from China’s strict import quota on foreign films and entitle its foreign production partners to a larger...

September 21, 2014, Sunday

“Gone with the Bullets,” “Coming Home” and “Wolf Totem” are attracting notice as possible Academy Award entrants. A film from mainland China has yet to win an Oscar, and officials are eager for the cultural validation that the award would...

August 20, 2014, Wednesday

In “Coming Home,” Zhang Yimou examines China’s troubled political past and suggests how to deal with it today. With his legendary muse, Gong Li, playing the central character, the film represents a return to form for the director.